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your focus has been perhaps elsewhere in the world, but there is a raging debate here in the united states and your country as well about the glass ceiling and whether women can have it all. the article saying essentially you can't all at once. maybe over time. where do you come out on this? >> i have a great respect for emery slaughter whom i know. i always say you have got to look at this in the context of a career span which is 40 or 50 years, and i think there are times when you can't have it all in the sense that you can't go full out on your career and full out on bringing up young children. >> eliot: right. >> but that span is such a small part of a lifetime's career. but i do say that women can have it all spaced out over that career, and what we need to do to change the whole dynamic is try to stop making it so women have to make once and for all choices, particularly around the time when they want to have children and bring up their families. too often now we allow women to fall out of the job market and we don't give them ways back in. >> eliot: right. >> and we don't acknowledg
your focus has been perhaps elsewhere in the world, but there is a raging debate here in the united states and your country as well about the glass ceiling and whether women can have it all. the article saying essentially you can't all at once. maybe over time. where do you come out on this? >> i have a great respect for emery slaughter whom i know. i always say you have got to look at this in the context of a career span which is 40 or 50 years, and i think there are times when you can't...
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politically would have been seen as an accomplishment for the president of the united states. and remember and we said it again and again the first pledge by the minority leader, the republican leader in the united states senate was that he will make barack obama a one-term president. that would be his goal. i think that that goal is driving many of these decisions. >> eliot: i think politics overwhelms any sensibility of judgment or good policy. it is just a horror show. highlights once again the necessity filibuster reform. you've been talking about this rightly so, for some period of time. do you think there will be any greater impetus now assuming, as i think it may be fair to assume that the democratic party holds control of the senate. in the first couple of weeks in january of next year or two to fundamentally reform the filibuster rule? >> i think views have changed. among democrats. one of the first votes i took 20 months ago when i was sworn into the senate was in fact, to eliminate the 60 vote threshold the filibuster rule. all of the delaying procedural tactics tha
politically would have been seen as an accomplishment for the president of the united states. and remember and we said it again and again the first pledge by the minority leader, the republican leader in the united states senate was that he will make barack obama a one-term president. that would be his goal. i think that that goal is driving many of these decisions. >> eliot: i think politics overwhelms any sensibility of judgment or good policy. it is just a horror show. highlights once...
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. >> is this good for the united states? is this good for the arab people. >> eliot: just to stop you, that is a fundamental question that we don't often stop to ask that question. who is we? >> we tend to think if it's bad for us it must be bad for them. we don't stop and think that something bad for us might be good for them. in the long run the middle east is to have legitimate stable government. stable democratic government. that's good for them. in the short one it's quite possible while it's still good for the arab world, it will be bad for us. why? because when you replace bought and paid for dictators like we had before who could be counted on to share america's sense-- >> eliot: mu barrack. >> when her you replace that with a democratic government, which is responsive to its people and you have a population which is fairly heavily anti-american, it's going to look pretty anti-america. is that bad for arab peoples in egypt libya yemen and elsewhere? >> eliot: syria. >> we don't know, and the answer is no. but is it b
. >> is this good for the united states? is this good for the arab people. >> eliot: just to stop you, that is a fundamental question that we don't often stop to ask that question. who is we? >> we tend to think if it's bad for us it must be bad for them. we don't stop and think that something bad for us might be good for them. in the long run the middle east is to have legitimate stable government. stable democratic government. that's good for them. in the short one it's...
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it was a living, breathing explanation for why skilled union labor matters in the united states! you had unskilled untrained replacement/scab referees and the moment was far too big for them to put it mildly. they couldn't punch their way -- they absolutely cracked under the pressure and the result of which you saw on the field. an absolute embarrassment and a farce. something i believe woody allen would have called a travesty of a mockery of a travesty of a sham. >> eliot: basically like american politics. we'll put that aside for a moment. what i saw and i'm the untrained observer when it comes to the intricacies of football rules. i saw pass interference. one guy catch the ball. they missed the interference. they gave possession to the wrong guy. this was not hard to see if you had two eyes open. so i mean i just don't get how a normal person standing right there could miss this. >> as herm edwards of espn said, four drunk guys in a bar could have called this correctly. it was an absolute embarrassment. if the players were officiating themselves, they would have called this co
it was a living, breathing explanation for why skilled union labor matters in the united states! you had unskilled untrained replacement/scab referees and the moment was far too big for them to put it mildly. they couldn't punch their way -- they absolutely cracked under the pressure and the result of which you saw on the field. an absolute embarrassment and a farce. something i believe woody allen would have called a travesty of a mockery of a travesty of a sham. >> eliot: basically like...